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Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, with some prominent religious leaders defending the new junta.
Three months of turmoil have followed the February pre-dawn raids in which soldiers arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her top allies, sparking furious and widespread opposition.
But a hardline, pro-military faction within the clergy has also defended the new junta as a protector of a majority-Buddhist identity against the purported threat of a slow Islamic takeover.
Among that group is Parmaukkha, an ultra-nationalist monk with a large following who was once arrested for inciting hatred against Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
Keeping Aung San Suu Kyi at the helm would see "an extinction of our religion, ethnicity and the entire country", he said.
At the same time, a nationalist movement named Ma Ba Tha emerged within the clergy alongside the growing prominence of a charismatic extremist monk named Wirathu - once dubbed "the Buddhist bin Laden" by Time magazine.
His rhetoric and his followers' hostility towards the Rohingya helped whip up public support for a brutal 2017 military crackdown, branded a "genocide" by UN investigators.
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Three months of turmoil have followed the February pre-dawn raids in which soldiers arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her top allies, sparking furious and widespread opposition.
But a hardline, pro-military faction within the clergy has also defended the new junta as a protector of a majority-Buddhist identity against the purported threat of a slow Islamic takeover.
Among that group is Parmaukkha, an ultra-nationalist monk with a large following who was once arrested for inciting hatred against Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
Keeping Aung San Suu Kyi at the helm would see "an extinction of our religion, ethnicity and the entire country", he said.
At the same time, a nationalist movement named Ma Ba Tha emerged within the clergy alongside the growing prominence of a charismatic extremist monk named Wirathu - once dubbed "the Buddhist bin Laden" by Time magazine.
His rhetoric and his followers' hostility towards the Rohingya helped whip up public support for a brutal 2017 military crackdown, branded a "genocide" by UN investigators.
Buddhist monks in Myanmar split on anti-junta movement
Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, ...
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Well to the troll that can only spew drivels, we can repeat what Galactic Penguin said to the fund raisers of the alabaster statue of Bogokye Aung San in Mandalay.
We live in a world that has been unified since circa 1946. Therefore any nations set free from the European colonial empires are the decision of the Secret Master of the World. Called it the Pax Americana for convenience.
On 4 January 1948 at 4.20 am, the nation became an independent republic, named the Union of Burma
Therefore, part of the Pax Americana.
On 4 January 1948 at 4.20 am, the nation became an independent republic, named the Union of Burma
Therefore, part of the Pax Americana.
Should one reject the contribution of Bogokye Aung San for an independent Burma? Although he failed, Burma ending up occupied by the Pax Americana, but as a person, his life was heroic.
Notice that Galactic Penguin lectured all his guides and entourage throughout his official journey in Myanmar, as he saw and exposed the many obvious evidence of this current military occupation by the Pax Americana.
Example 1:
Galactic Penguin said: Inside a natural cave in Pindaya, Myanmar, thousands of golden Buddhas line the rocky shelfs and stalagmite altars attracting the faithful who are brave enough to get past the giant spider statue on the way up.
Well, look at the spider' eyes. Seems familiar? Indeed, the same blue eyes shared with the fake Buddha statues both in Tibetan monastery and in Nepal as well.
Coincidence? I think not!
Example 2:Well, look at the spider' eyes. Seems familiar? Indeed, the same blue eyes shared with the fake Buddha statues both in Tibetan monastery and in Nepal as well.
Coincidence? I think not!
Galactic Penguin commented: The Maha Bodhi Ta Htaung 116 meter tall standing Buddha East of Monywa has a very interresting gallery of paintings in the second to 4th stage.
Unfortunatelly no picture can be found with google...of the one depicting a monster that tyrannises the earthlings from the outer space aboard some sort of spaceship. Before meeting his miserable end by falling right into the flames of the hell for his evil deeds.
Unfortunatelly no picture can be found with google...of the one depicting a monster that tyrannises the earthlings from the outer space aboard some sort of spaceship. Before meeting his miserable end by falling right into the flames of the hell for his evil deeds.
Not surprising that all the Myanmar's party wanted Galactic Penguin to stay longer, if not forever, to share his insightful wisdom (and RMB) with them!
Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, with some prominent religious leaders defending the new junta.
Three months of turmoil have followed the February pre-dawn raids in which soldiers arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her top allies, sparking furious and widespread opposition.
But a hardline, pro-military faction within the clergy has also defended the new junta as a protector of a majority-Buddhist identity against the purported threat of a slow Islamic takeover.
Among that group is Parmaukkha, an ultra-nationalist monk with a large following who was once arrested for inciting hatred against Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Keeping Aung San Suu Kyi at the helm would see "an extinction of our religion, ethnicity and the entire country", he said.
At the same time, a nationalist movement named Ma Ba Tha emerged within the clergy alongside the growing prominence of a charismatic extremist monk named Wirathu - once dubbed "the Buddhist bin Laden" by Time magazine.
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His rhetoric and his followers' hostility towards the Rohingya helped whip up public support for a brutal 2017 military crackdown, branded a "genocide" by UN investigators.
Buddhist monks in Myanmar split on anti-junta movement
Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, ...
This is another perfect example of how naive and clueless most people in general and these in Myanmar in particular can be.
You want to be westernized, to share the same economic privileges, life expectancy, education and job opportunities as westerners, but you forget that there is a huge caveat.
In fact people don't realize that most westerners lost their traditional religious faith after circa 1960.
At the same time the Westerners' birth rate started to plummet as homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, pedophilia etc. sky jumped.
Welcome to reality, Myanmar's fools. Now that you wanted to be part of the globalized western world, here is your share.
As for those who think their lives are worth being jeopardized if not wasted as
tributes in medieval jungle warfare, in the year 2021...
Please proceed.
Meanwhile, Galactic Penguin and the enlightened few
e.g. Dr Adlene Hicheur will continue his quest for immortality through the completion of the most challenging and exclusive exo-diplomatic threshold's focus tree!
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Wow very progressive and smart.
Perfect aba's ball ma.
Perfect aba's ball ma.
Well to the troll that can only spew drivels, we can repeat what Galactic Penguin said to the fund raisers of the alabaster statue of Bogokye Aung San in Mandalay.
We live in a world that has been unified since circa 1946. Therefore any nations set free from the European colonial empires are the decision of the Secret Master of the World. Called it the Pax Americana for convenience.
On 4 January 1948 at 4.20 am, the nation became an independent republic, named the Union of Burma
Therefore, part of the Pax Americana.
Should one reject the contribution of Bogokye Aung San for an independent Burma? Although he failed, Burma ending up occupied by the Pax Americana, but as a person, his life was heroic.
Notice that Galactic Penguin lectured all his guides and entourage throughout his official journey in Myanmar, as he saw and exposed the many obvious evidence of this current military occupation by the Pax Americana.
Example 1:
Galactic Penguin said: Inside a natural cave in Pindaya, Myanmar, thousands of golden Buddhas line the rocky shelfs and stalagmite altars attracting the faithful who are brave enough to get past the giant spider statue on the way up.Example 2:
Well, look at the spider' eyes. Seems familiar? Indeed, the same blue eyes shared with the fake Buddha statues both in Tibetan monastery and in Nepal as well.
Coincidence? I think not!
Galactic Penguin commented: The Maha Bodhi Ta Htaung 116 meter tall standing Buddha East of Monywa has a very interresting gallery of paintings in the second to 4th stage.
Unfortunatelly no picture can be found with google...of the one depicting a monster that tyrannises the earthlings from the outer space aboard some sort of spaceship. Before meeting his miserable end by falling right into the flames of the hell for his evil deeds.
Not surprising that all the Myanmar's party wanted Galactic Penguin to stay longer, if not forever, to share his insightful wisdom (and RMB) with them!
This is another perfect example of how naive and clueless most people in general and these in Myanmar in particular can be.
You want to be westernized, to share the same economic privileges, life expectancy, education and job opportunities as westerners, but you forget that there is a huge caveat.
In fact people don't realize that most westerners lost their traditional religious faith after circa 1960.
At the same time the Westerners' birth rate started to plummet as homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, pedophilia etc. sky jumped.
Welcome to reality, Myanmar's fools. Now that you wanted to be part of the globalized western world, here is your share.
As for those who think their lives are worth being jeopardized if not wasted astributesin medieval jungle warfare, in the year 2021...
Please proceed.
Meanwhile, Galactic Penguin and the enlightened fewe.g. Dr Adlene Hicheurwill continue his quest for immortality through the completion of the most challenging and exclusive exo-diplomatic threshold's focus tree!
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Btw please grow up dude.
The common ball ma strawman arguement of su kyi era = instant fall of buddhism is the cringest cringe of all time.
Cant write fancy long stuff like you but don't we deserve something better after staying this long in s**thole?
Nationalism (ballmanism) is cool ok? But life does not evolve around that childish s**t.
Yeah i know u r a woke, top of the foodchain kind of dude but isn't it a big hypocricy for your beloved abas to be using religion to brainwash the common plebs with guns to protect their a**?
Now the 'sit phat a yat phat sat san yay' is down in the drain. Good luck running the country with guns and some 'a myo bar tar tar ta nar cringe s**t'.
I am not buying it.
The common ball ma strawman arguement of su kyi era = instant fall of buddhism is the cringest cringe of all time.
Cant write fancy long stuff like you but don't we deserve something better after staying this long in s**thole?
Nationalism (ballmanism) is cool ok? But life does not evolve around that childish s**t.
Yeah i know u r a woke, top of the foodchain kind of dude but isn't it a big hypocricy for your beloved abas to be using religion to brainwash the common plebs with guns to protect their a**?
Now the 'sit phat a yat phat sat san yay' is down in the drain. Good luck running the country with guns and some 'a myo bar tar tar ta nar cringe s**t'.
I am not buying it.
Well to the troll that can only spew drivels, we can repeat what Galactic Penguin said to the fund raisers of the alabaster statue of Bogokye Aung San in Mandalay.
We live in a world that has been unified since circa 1946. Therefore any nations set free from the European colonial empires are the decision of the Secret Master of the World. Called it the Pax Americana for convenience.
On 4 January 1948 at 4.20 am, the nation became an independent republic, named the Union of Burma
Therefore, part of the Pax Americana.
Should one reject the contribution of Bogokye Aung San for an independent Burma? Although he failed, Burma ending up occupied by the Pax Americana, but as a person, his life was heroic.
Notice that Galactic Penguin lectured all his guides and entourage throughout his official journey in Myanmar, as he saw and exposed the many obvious evidence of this current military occupation by the Pax Americana.
Example 1:
Galactic Penguin said: Inside a natural cave in Pindaya, Myanmar, thousands of golden Buddhas line the rocky shelfs and stalagmite altars attracting the faithful who are brave enough to get past the giant spider statue on the way up.Example 2:
Well, look at the spider' eyes. Seems familiar? Indeed, the same blue eyes shared with the fake Buddha statues both in Tibetan monastery and in Nepal as well.
Coincidence? I think not!
Galactic Penguin commented: The Maha Bodhi Ta Htaung 116 meter tall standing Buddha East of Monywa has a very interresting gallery of paintings in the second to 4th stage.
Unfortunatelly no picture can be found with google...of the one depicting a monster that tyrannises the earthlings from the outer space aboard some sort of spaceship. Before meeting his miserable end by falling right into the flames of the hell for his evil deeds.
Not surprising that all the Myanmar's party wanted Galactic Penguin to stay longer, if not forever, to share his insightful wisdom (and RMB) with them!
This is another perfect example of how naive and clueless most people in general and these in Myanmar in particular can be.
You want to be westernized, to share the same economic privileges, life expectancy, education and job opportunities as westerners, but you forget that there is a huge caveat.
In fact people don't realize that most westerners lost their traditional religious faith after circa 1960.
At the same time the Westerners' birth rate started to plummet as homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, pedophilia etc. sky jumped.
Welcome to reality, Myanmar's fools. Now that you wanted to be part of the globalized western world, here is your share.
As for those who think their lives are worth being jeopardized if not wasted astributesin medieval jungle warfare, in the year 2021...
Please proceed.
Meanwhile, Galactic Penguin and the enlightened fewe.g. Dr Adlene Hicheurwill continue his quest for immortality through the completion of the most challenging and exclusive exo-diplomatic threshold's focus tree!
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I don't support military rule in Myanmar neither the evil Tatmadaw but Buddhism should be given privilege in the democratic constitution of Myanmar in the form of state religion.
Look at Malaysia. Islam is state religion but it has a healthy democracy and a well functioning economy.
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Fears of ‘digital dictatorship’ as Myanmar deploys AI
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protesters in Myanmar fear they are being tracked with Chinese facial recognition technology, as spiralling violence and street surveillance spark fears of a “digital dictatorship” to replace ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Human rights groups say the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to check on citizens’ movements poses a “serious threat” to their liberty.
More than 200 people have been killed since Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi was overthrown in a Feb. 1 coup, triggering mass protests that security forces have struggled to suppress with increasingly violent tactics.
Security forces have focused on stamping out dissent in cities including the capital Naypyitaw, Yangon and Mandalay, where hundreds of CCTV cameras had been installed as part of a drive to improve governance and curb crime.
Human Rights Watch has expressed its “heightened concern” over cameras armed with AI technology that can scan faces and vehicle licence plates in public places, and alert authorities to those on a wanted list.
“Even before the protests, the CCTVs were a concern for us, so we would try and avoid them – by taking different routes to go home, for example,” Win Pe Myaing, a protester in Yangon, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“We believe the police and the military are using the system to track demonstrations and protests. It’s like a digital dictatorship – the regime is using technology to track and arrest citizens, and that’s dangerous,” he said.
Myanmar authorities could not be reached for comment.
Most of the equipment used in Safe City, a project to curb crime in big cities, is from Chinese technology firm Huawei, the Myanmar Now publication had reported.
Huawei did not respond to a request for comment.
Huawei told Human Rights Watch it was providing “standard ICT infrastructure equipment” – information and communications technology, and that the facial and licence-plate recognition technology on the cameras was not from Huawei.
There were many vendors, and Huawei “is not involved in any actual operation and data storage or processing,” it said.
UIGHURS
Chinese tech firms have come under increased scrutiny for their use of tools to detect, track and monitor minority Uighurs in Xinjiang region, where activists and United Nations experts say at least a million Muslim Uighurs are detained in camps.
China denies abuses and says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
“Authorities’ ability to identify people on the streets, potentially track their movements and relationships, and intrude into private lives poses a grave risk to anti-coup activists,” said Manny Maung, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.
“It can also be used to single out individuals in discriminatory or arbitrary ways, including for their ethnicity or religion,” she said in a statement.
Young activists have created mobile mapping apps to warn protesters of the presence of police and military on the streets. The crowd-sourced maps also show the locations of water cannons, roadblocks and ambulances.
Chinese-made surveillance technologies deployed in locations from Britain to Vietnam have raised concerns about privacy and the potential for misuse and discrimination.
In Myanmar, sections of the law protecting the privacy and security of citizens have been suspended, and there are no legal guidelines for the collection, use and storage of personal data.
While no arrests can be linked to facial recognition technology due to a lack of transparency, some residents are covering up the cameras, said activist Debbie Stothard.
“There are very serious concerns about how the military junta is using digital technologies,” said Stothard, founder of Alternative Asean Network on Burma.
“If they are not already using it to target protesters and others, it is inevitable – and imminent,” she said.
(Reporting by Rina Chandran @rinachandran, with additional reporting by a Thomson Reuters Foundation stringer; Editing by Lyndsay Griffiths. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org)
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protesters in Myanmar fear they are being tracked with Chinese facial recognition technology, as spiralling violence and street surveillance spark fears of a “digital dictatorship” to replace ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Human rights groups say the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to check on citizens’ movements poses a “serious threat” to their liberty.
More than 200 people have been killed since Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi was overthrown in a Feb. 1 coup, triggering mass protests that security forces have struggled to suppress with increasingly violent tactics.
Security forces have focused on stamping out dissent in cities including the capital Naypyitaw, Yangon and Mandalay, where hundreds of CCTV cameras had been installed as part of a drive to improve governance and curb crime.
Human Rights Watch has expressed its “heightened concern” over cameras armed with AI technology that can scan faces and vehicle licence plates in public places, and alert authorities to those on a wanted list.
“Even before the protests, the CCTVs were a concern for us, so we would try and avoid them – by taking different routes to go home, for example,” Win Pe Myaing, a protester in Yangon, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“We believe the police and the military are using the system to track demonstrations and protests. It’s like a digital dictatorship – the regime is using technology to track and arrest citizens, and that’s dangerous,” he said.
Myanmar authorities could not be reached for comment.
Most of the equipment used in Safe City, a project to curb crime in big cities, is from Chinese technology firm Huawei, the Myanmar Now publication had reported.
Huawei did not respond to a request for comment.
Huawei told Human Rights Watch it was providing “standard ICT infrastructure equipment” – information and communications technology, and that the facial and licence-plate recognition technology on the cameras was not from Huawei.
There were many vendors, and Huawei “is not involved in any actual operation and data storage or processing,” it said.
UIGHURS
Chinese tech firms have come under increased scrutiny for their use of tools to detect, track and monitor minority Uighurs in Xinjiang region, where activists and United Nations experts say at least a million Muslim Uighurs are detained in camps.
China denies abuses and says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
“Authorities’ ability to identify people on the streets, potentially track their movements and relationships, and intrude into private lives poses a grave risk to anti-coup activists,” said Manny Maung, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.
“It can also be used to single out individuals in discriminatory or arbitrary ways, including for their ethnicity or religion,” she said in a statement.
Young activists have created mobile mapping apps to warn protesters of the presence of police and military on the streets. The crowd-sourced maps also show the locations of water cannons, roadblocks and ambulances.
Chinese-made surveillance technologies deployed in locations from Britain to Vietnam have raised concerns about privacy and the potential for misuse and discrimination.
In Myanmar, sections of the law protecting the privacy and security of citizens have been suspended, and there are no legal guidelines for the collection, use and storage of personal data.
While no arrests can be linked to facial recognition technology due to a lack of transparency, some residents are covering up the cameras, said activist Debbie Stothard.
“There are very serious concerns about how the military junta is using digital technologies,” said Stothard, founder of Alternative Asean Network on Burma.
“If they are not already using it to target protesters and others, it is inevitable – and imminent,” she said.
(Reporting by Rina Chandran @rinachandran, with additional reporting by a Thomson Reuters Foundation stringer; Editing by Lyndsay Griffiths. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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